Science Plays God

[alice wellintown]

A global conservation ethic, supported by laws that are quite specific
and particular has been suggested, piloted, but the challanges are
formidable. For example, the nation state, the multinational, the
needs of emerging and frontier economies are major forces that will
need to be drawn in and organized around the effort. And these are the
easy challanges. More difficult to deal with, by far, are the deeper
philosophical and cultural foundations. Thus far we have identified,
in the West,  the dominant mythologies, the spirit of capitalism and
the Christian Religion, the cult of science/technology...how a shift
within the cult of science can be motivated, givin its utilitarian
partnership with the army, business, etc., and the ethos that claims
superiority over not only the humanities and the much maligned and
marginalized humanism (forget about the arguments on behalf of
non-human members of our planet) but over others, such as those in the
East, who also claim superiority....and, using technology to call for
change, to implement change, is a problem as well, so the young, who
tend to buy into the ecological and environmental cause, are also the
group less likely to find non-scientific/technological ideas.

We are caught betwwen a god, science, and the deep soon to be dead sea.